Description: In this episode of William F. Buckley's Firing Line television show, Jerry Brown and several journalists join Buckley.

Firing Line Program Catalog: Jerry Brown was Ronald Reagan's successor as governor; his father, Pat Brown, had been Reagan's predecessor. Governor Brown the younger would later become known as a flake, "Governor Moonbeam"; in this discussion, primarily of desegregation, he comes across as straightforward and well spoken. Brown: "I would leave this [busing] to the sound discretion of the judiciary, and see what happens." Buckley: "You wouldn't leave it to the unsound discretion of the judiciary?" Brown: "Well, that's a phrase that lawyers use. Whenever the word 'discretion' is used, you usually preface it with the word 'sound'-- and maybe that's more a hope than a description."

Source: 1 Tape of 1: 2 inch videotape: Quad

Additional Source Information: Program S0204, PBS-514. Master loaned from the Library of Congress.

Collection: Firing Line broadcasts

Program Number: s0202

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